Prepare your first SQL Server talk with one real problem, two resettable demos, a timed thirty-minute outline, a rehearsal, and a backup plan.
EXECUTE AS LOGIN vs EXECUTE AS USER: Where Impersonation Stops
Your test passed as a user, yet the sales team still gets an error. Here is where each kind of impersonation stops, and how to get back out.
Changing a User-Defined Table Type That Procedures Use
You need one more column in a table type, but procedures depend on it. Here is the order of moves that works, with the errors along the way.
Volunteering in the Data Community
Volunteering in the data community can mean welcoming people, reviewing talks, answering questions, or organizing events within a clear time budget.
Presentation Skills for Technical Speakers: Notes from SQL Bangalore
Presentation skills were the subject of a soft skill session at SQL Bangalore on May 3, 2014, called Performing an Effective Presentation. This post recaps the evening, shows its photos and slides, and lists the presentation skills that still hold today.
SQLAuthority News – An Amazing Event – Presented at North India’s Largest Conference C Sharp Corner
There are few feelings which are hard to describe in words as this note is about an amazing event on the C Sharp Corner.
SQL Bangalore: The First SQL Server User Group Meeting
SQL Bangalore, our new SQL Server user group, held its first meeting on November 24, 2012. We had five 30 minute sessions, a surprise guest from Mumbai and an international guest from the USA. Here is my report, with photographs.